xAI company used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend

Ani, is an anime avatar with blonde pigtails and a NSFW setup Released during the summer For users who subscribe to X’s $30 per month SuperGrok service. After testing it, EdgeVictoria song He described it as “a modern take on the phone sex line.”

Like the phone sex line, there appear to be real people behind the avatar. At a meeting in April, Lily Lim, a staff attorney for XAI, told employees that they would need to provide their biometric data to train the AI ​​companion to be more human-like in its interactions with customers, according to a recording of a review of the meeting by magazine.

Employees designated as AI teachers were instructed to sign release forms granting xAI a “perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-free license” to use, reproduce, and distribute their faces and voices, as part of a secret program codenamed “Project Skippy.” The data will be used to train Ani, as well as Grok’s other AI companions.

According to the magazine, some employees declined the request, fearing their faces or likenesses could be sold to other companies or used in deepfake videos. Employees have been put off by the chatbot’s sexual behavior and its resemblance to waifu. But they were told that collecting their data was a “functional requirement to further XAI’s mission.”